http://www.gracedugan.net ... Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:24:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hi all, My new novel The Motherland Garden is being sent out into the vast wide world to find a good home. I'll let you know what happens. In the mean time, here is a kind of back-cover blurb which I whipped up with the help of Trent Jamieson. Don't get too ... http://www.gracedugan.net/2008/10/27/the-motherland-garden/ The good people at Interzone are thinking about releasing audio versions of a few stories, including "Knowledge." I'm having a stab at reading it myself, which is much harder than I thought. I have a bit of a stammering tendency. We'll have to see how it turns out. Anyway, I'll ... http://www.gracedugan.net/2008/06/24/audio-gd/ "Knowledge" came second in the Interzone Readers Poll for 2007. I'm so thrilled that so many people liked it. Now I've got to finish some more stories... Here's the full list: http://ttapress.com/441/2007-interzone-readers-poll-results/ http://www.gracedugan.net/2008/06/24/interzone-readers-poll/ I should have been nominated for a Hugo. There's a little review of "Knowledge" here on Sam Tomaino's Hugo recommendations on SFRevu. http://sfrevu.com/php/Review-id.php?id=6870 http://www.gracedugan.net/2008/06/24/somebody-thought/ Belatedly, here's a link to an interview I did last year as part of a snapshot of Australian sf. http://random-alex.livejournal.com/21757.html http://www.gracedugan.net/2008/03/15/snapshot-2007/ Interzone is available online on Fictionwise. You can buy a whole issue for just USD5, which I reckon is a pretty good deal. Here's a link for issue 211, the one which includes my story "Knowledge." http://www.fictionwise.com/eBooks/eBook53691.htm?cache http://www.gracedugan.net/2008/03/15/interzone-online-edition/ People have been asking me where they can buy The Silver Road. Well, in Australia, you can of course just order it at any bookshop, and if you're overseas I recommend this website: www.abebooks.com. They list books from many bookshops around the world. However, if you're outside Australia, you'll end ... http://www.gracedugan.net/2007/08/28/buying-the-silver-road/ The Silver Road has been reviewed on Boingboing by Alice Taylor. Here's the link: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/15/summer_fantasy_readi.html   http://www.gracedugan.net/2007/08/16/boing/ I just received my copy of Interzone issue 211 which includes my story "Knowledge." It has fairly spiffy artwork, which you can see online at http://scifi.uk.com/2007/06/22/interzone-211-contents-michael-moorcock-richard-morgan/. It was published last month and took a while to come to me because they had my old address. I haven't got my hands ... http://www.gracedugan.net/2007/08/15/interzone/ Hi all, The Silver Road has been nominated for a Ditmar for Best Novel. The Ditmars (otherwise known as the Australian Science Fiction Achievement Awards), are voted by the members of the National SF Convention, which this year happens to be Convergence in Melbourne in June. I won't be there, so ... http://www.gracedugan.net/2007/04/20/ditmar-nomination/